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Kate in SK 🍁

@vitamink8.bsky.social
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Introvert, fact checker, and radical centrist. Opposed to racism, bigotry, political extremism, and disinformation. Moved to Bluesky in protest against the RWNJ who owns that other platform.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 12h
🧵 Carney and Zelenskyy discussed the new agreement between US and Russia to supply diesel to US. PM Carney was clear: this agreement is in direct opposition to the efforts of Ukraine, Canada, and our allies to create peace and stability in Europe.
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FF-Suze @suze-bsky.bsky.social · 18h
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
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No, Alberta Does Not ‘Subsidize’ the Rest of Canada | The Tyee
The vast majority of workers get more from federal programs than they give.
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Colleen @collburns.bsky.social · 18h
Happy Thanksgiving Weekend 🇨🇦🦃🍁
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Leslie-Anne 🇨🇦🇫🇷😷☮️**I AM CANADIAN!** Bird Nerd🪶!! @leslie-anne.bsky.social · 18h
youtu.be/wgw377J3nds?.... Dear CBC, if you insist on allowing Pollievre to continue spewing his disinformation on your channel, at least show us the courtesy of FACT CHECKING HIM.
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BREAKING: How The U.S.A. Trade War Drags Canada Down
YouTube video by Claus Kellerman POV
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Mkeall 🇨🇦 @mkeall.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Cathie from Canada🍁 @cathiecanada.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Cathie from Canada new blog post - "You're finished!" will finish the week. cathiefromcanada.blogspot.com/2026/10/your...
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Or, Eby wanted a more stable majority govt to deal with the Trump crisis and other challenges. Whether the timing was ideal or not, it's normal political strategy.
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Bravo to the 69%. Please get out the maximum vote to crush the 24% of disloyal and delusional separatists in Alberta. #abpoli #referendum
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Canuck Traveler🇨🇦 @nancyeaton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1 down,more to come. #NeverBCCon #VoteNDP
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
From the prairie heartland of RW extremism, I can assure you that one racist is always just the tip of the iceberg in Conservative politics. In Eby/NDP, BC has decency, moderation and a good relationship with Ottawa... if voters don't throw it all away out of petty spite (early election). #bcpoli
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Usually October snowfall in central SK melts before the permanent winter snow arrives, but there have been rare exceptions. When October snow lasts the entire winter, that is very depressing. Mexican interlude, anyone?
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Cathie from Canada🍁 @cathiecanada.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Cathie from Canada new blog post - Today's News: No Peace Prize for Carney this year, plus Trade War Dispatches, Canada News, and Signs of the Apocalypse cathiefromcanada.blogspot.com/2026/10/toda...
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Jay Wilson @jayskis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Have you tried this yet? www.cbc.ca/news/busines... Of course, try and find a place to rent in Guelph. 🤣
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yes, I agree that only if Canadian laws are broken should there be any charges. However, some of us need to vent about the minority of yahoos who would break up our country based on false grievances and delusional greed.
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For disloyal separatists to seek foreign funding and interference is harmful and offensive to all of Canada. Then there's referendums that stupidly cater to the tyranny of the minority. A separatist minority isn't the tail trying to wag the dog; it's a flea on the tail wagging the dog. Enough!
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Marc Miller nails it, as usual. Paul St-Pierre Plamondon needs reminding that he is Premier-designate of all Quebec people, not just the less than 1/3 who are separatists. #Quebec #QCpoli #My_CA_includes_QC
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Cathie from Canada🍁 @cathiecanada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cathie from Canada new blog post - Today's News: Some Election Updates, Signs of the Apocalypse and Trade War Dispatches cathiefromcanada.blogspot.com/2026/10/toda...
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BC Reality @bcreality.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you're a BC voter and think, yeah those Conservatives will make life more affordable or....I'm going to make Eby pay for calling an election. You're a sucker and once the BC Conservatives PRIVATIZE ICBC you'll be paying HUGE premiums. #bcpoli
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Rich T 🇨🇦 @wittman98.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This bullshit with Alberta separatists going to the US and promising natural resources for assistance has to be investigated and dealt with very quickly. They're working with a foreign country, one that is currently aggressive towards Canada. If that's not treason then what is?
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Watching Québec shoot itself in the foot tonight makes me wonder if David Eby in B.C. should’ve waited. The choices people will make out of spite are mind-blowing. Sometimes the protest vote ends up protesting your own interests. 🤦🏽‍♂️
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
2 of 2 Refresher for #bcpoli on what provincial Conservative policies make *worse*: ▪️healthcare (staff shortages, privatization, access issues) ▪️public education (⬇️ funding, ⬆️ class size) ▪️labour relations (wage restriction) ▪️rising debt due to deficient tax revenue ▪️rejecting clean energy.
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If BC votes against their best interests and elects Conservatives just to punish Premier Eby for an early election, that is very immature and self-destructive. #bcpoli 1 of 2
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Cathie from Canada🍁 @cathiecanada.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Cathie from Canada new blog post - Separatists to the east of me, Jokers to the west, Here I am, Stuck in the middle with you... cathiefromcanada.blogspot.com/2026/10/sepa...
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Digital sovereignty for Canada and an alternative payment system not dominated by the U.S.
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Colleen @collburns.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wake the F*ck up BC! The Cons will destroy your Province! Advice from Ontario
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Same. I blocked Gilmore recently because she wasn't being factual about PM Carney. Her posts seem like unhinged tabloid nonsense. Journalism it isn't.
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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Omg, this is SO depressing. This is what happens when a decent government (Eby’s) is relentlessly attacked on every issue. Helping to usher in dangerous #MapleMAGA Cons. Governing is hard, unless you come in & destroy everything, create massive debt & gut services, as Cons always do. #BCpoli
DIFFERENT

A 3 panel cartoon showing a little humanoid figure saying “I want things to be different”. Panel 2 shows the figure smashing everything with a baseball bat. Panel 3 shows the figure standing amongst the ruins saying “oh no”
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes to Jack Smith, and any hero who will hold Trump accountable, and every voter who will #DumpTrump. #NoKings, no grifters, no narcissists, no warlords. Never again, USA.
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I agree.
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If he can ask that question with a straight face, even now, then he is truly in the Trump cult and cannot be deprogrammed.
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If a PQ govt back-stabs Canada to make a deal with, or take funds from, the Trump regime, can the Feds reduce the #Quebec #equalization transfer accordingly? The formula would have to be revised, or the Constitution amended. Do the Feds have other options to deter/ punish anti-Canadian treachery? 😢
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have one sister (Canadian) who is a Trump supporter. It's an awful feeling to lose respect for a sibling over what's happening in the U.S. She and I don't talk politics anymore, so I don't know if she changed her mind about Trump in the last year or so. I sure hope so.
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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hilarious because it’s true. #Homeopathy
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
After watching that homeopathic Emergency Room, I am this emoji 🤣🤣. The best was near the end where the guy says "but when someone comes in with a vague sense of unease, or a touch of the nerves, or just more money than sense, you're there with basically a bottle of water and a big invoice." 🎯
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have zero sympathy for Canadians making nonessential trips to the states. If U.S. Customs & Border Protection agents are tougher on them, good! Now maybe those travelers will stop supporting the U.S. economy and the regime which threatened a hostile takeover of Canada. #BoycottUSA
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wouldn't surprise me. Disgusting!
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If the PQ is elected with a majority in QC, do you think they will make a separate trade deal with Trump's USA? Or any other sleazy connection to that regime?
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The founder of Bloomberg News, a highly respected voice in global finance, says our Canadian economy is not just ok, it's doing really well. 👇
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Albertans... "This is not an Ottawa or immigration problem." #abpoli #AlbertaReferendum 👇
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Alberta separatists sought US help to break up Canada, offering the province's oil, water and land while Trump threatened Canada with tariffs and annexation; US Republican operatives offered the separatist campaign voter-targeting technology. #cdnpoli
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Alberta separatists asked the US to help break up Canada and offered the province's oil, water and land in return
Albertans vote on 19 October after separatists offered the US government the province's oil, water and land, Michigan Republicans brought in software that exposed nearly three million voters' data, an...
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hopefully it won't come to that. I worry more about pro-Trump people being the most likely to harass or assault others.
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Considering the leader of the CPC has just 19% support for preferred PM and their seat projection is in free-fall, there's no way that 39% of Canadians think Conservatives would be better positioned to deal with tariffs and Trump. Who paid for that poll result?
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When buying a new or used car in Canada, look for VINs starting with 2 (made here). Next best is *anything but* VINs starting with 1, 4 or 5 (USA) and some VINs starting with 7.👇
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Canadians may have a 48% unfavourable view of Americans but, more importantly, we have a 79% unfavourable view of Trump. When USA voters and/or Congress make Trump go away, then maybe (?) Canadian hostility will start to fade. No guarantee though. #DumpTrump
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Drspayne @naturalwanderer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Come on provinces, drop the barriers and let’s function like more of a uniformed country when it comes to trade.
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#bcpoli
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clnzjay 🌱 🐶 🇨🇦 @clnz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And an important point: this isn't a case of LNG Canada using all Chinese steel. About 70% of the steel for the new compressor stations is expected to come from Canadian suppliers or mills. We're using Canadian capacity where we have it; where we don't, we have to trade.
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LNG Canada to use Chinese steel on $33B expansion project in Kitimat, B.C. | CBC News
LNG Canada says because Canadian suppliers are unable to make what it needs, it once again plans to use Chinese steel in its $33-billion Phase 2 expansion project in Kitimat, B.C. The expansion of its...
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GreyBruceInfo- Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦 @brucegreyinfo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A message for both Americans & Canadians. If you are buying a new or used vechcle, check the VIN. If it starts with 1 it was made in the USA. If it starts with 2, the car was made in Canada. Buy Canadian please ! 🇨🇦
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It happens to the best of us when there's a crumb of truth in an otherwise falsely hyped story. Also, some headline editors aren't anywhere near as ethical as they should be, imo.
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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exactly! And by now, most Canadians should be aware of the rightwing and anti-Liberal bias of some American-owned media in Canada, as well as rampant disinfo spread by foreign bots and trolls on social media. Sheesh!
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