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Mike

@widerawake.bsky.social
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Retired HD Mechanic. Blue Jays. Left of center. Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Not a lot of faith, but a little hope.

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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
France Canada ties: Macron, Carney deepen partnership in Saint-Pierre, back Canada-EU links - India Today share.google/o9BYzPX8H3eP...
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Macron, Carney vow stronger France-Canada ties amid US tensions
Emmanuel Macron and Mark Carney met in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon to deepen France-Canada cooperation on climate, energy and space. The symbolic visit underscored shared concerns over sovereignty, stra...
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Head of European Investment Bank eyes Canada opportunities as Carney pushes EU ties | CBC News
The president of the European Union's investment bank says "the time is ripe" to deepen its co-operation with Canada by exploring how to finance Canadian projects — comments that come as Prime Ministe...
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I woke up this morning with a feeling of starting to move on from the USA. It's like the grieving process of a bad breakup I guess and I am now moving on with my life without this formerly significant other. Thinking back, I guess I have always thought Euros were more my type anyway.
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Edmonton Oilers Reverse The Signing of Alex Formenton
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Babcock signing said something, this compounds it many times over. I will be purging all my Oilers jerseys, hats etcetera. I will have to have a NHL bye year at the least, not sure if I'll be able to ever be a fan again. So toxic 😪. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Acquitted 2018 world junior player Alex Formenton signs one-year deal with Edmonton Oilers | CBC News
The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward Alex Formenton to a one-year contract worth $850,000 US.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Jean Chrétien: "It looks like they don't know what to do. When your big thing is to change the name of a lake, it's because you're running out of arguments. It is a very weak gesture, to be cheap and nasty. Lake Ontario is not suffering. It's a lake." #cdnpoli
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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CANADA LAUNCHES MILITARY CAMPAIGN. OPERATION EPIC FOOL.
YouTube video by Michael Delaney
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Corpus Christi Withholds Water to Wetlands While Lifting Restrictions on Lawns - Inside Climate News
Reservoirs have rebounded from critical levels, but an emergency order absolves the city of requirements to resume releasing water for the Nueces River Delta.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Yes, it does sound familiar.
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Smith Goes Full MAGA Right Wing on Hate Speech | The Tyee
The Alberta premier slaps down Edmonton police and says the UCP will order a halt to prosecutions.
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Smith Goes Full MAGA Right Wing on Hate Speech | The Tyee
The Alberta premier slaps down Edmonton police and says the UCP will order a halt to prosecutions.
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Trump says Iran talks are a "chess game" while making bold promises: "It will work out"
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 18/07/2026
Ten times Canada helped the U.S
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Ten times Canada helped the U.S
Ten times Canada helped the U.S. with its wildfires, instead of whining about the smoke. 📰 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦𝗟𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥: newsletter.todmaffin.com 👕 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗛: shop.todmaffin.com 🎙️ 𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧: mirrorfalls.com ☕ Help support my work: support.todmaffin.com 🔗 Follow me on social: links.todmaffin.com ✉️ Contact my team: contact.todmaffin.com
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🦋 Frankie 🦋 @frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Happy birthday to Raffi, born on this day in 1948! One of Canada's most beloved entertainers, he has been delighting Canadians with his music for decades. A multiple Juno Award winner, he has received the Order of Canada, and several honorary degrees. 📸 Paquin Artists Agency
Raffi smiles while holding a ukulele outdoors in a wooded area. He wears a blue Hawaiian-style shirt with a white and light-blue floral pattern, standing in warm natural light with trees and greenery behind him.
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CBC BC News RSS Feed (Unofficial) @cbc-bc-rss-unoff.yvr.whims.io · 02/07/2026
Quesnel rolling out the red carpet to attract U.S.-trained doctors — and it's working
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Quesnel rolling out the red carpet to attract U.S.-trained doctors — and it's working
The community of Quesnel in northern B.C. is pulling out all the stops to attract U.S.-trained physicians and solve previously long waits for family doctors. A health-care recruiter in the community of around 10,000 people says the so-called "red carpet" approach is working — with at least four d...
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Bryan Adams - '51st State' (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Bryan Adams
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Mark Gerretsen @markgerretsen.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Poilievre and The 4-Step Populist Format
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
More from the "Peace" president. Maybe FIFA was just sucking up? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Middle East crisis live: Iran says Trump’s threats to ‘blow up’ Oman ‘dangerous and bullying’
US president said ally would be at risk if it did not ‘behave just like everybody else’
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
As MAGA Alberta Premier pushes an independence vote, important to remember: Alberta separatist movement largely based on lies, conspiracy theories, intolerance, and myths of a magical past... My take: thewalrus.ca/albertas-sep... cc @jaredwesley.ca @ryanjespersen.bsky.social
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Alberta’s Separatists Are Chasing a Total Cowboy Fantasy | The Walrus
The province they describe—rural, homogeneous, under siege—bears little resemblance to reality
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NigelBankes @nigelb.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The good news is that Alberta's Chief Justices refuse to provide any judicial sanction to Premier Smith's efforts to undermine the ordinary process for the review of electoral boundaries. This is now way too political for any judge, sitting or retired, to accept such an appointment. #ableg #abpoli
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
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SPECIAL REPORT - Your Neighbour Canada Has Changed And You're Not Going to Like What is Happening
The unvarnished truth about Donald Trump, Big Business, Big Media
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 08/04/2026
US vice-president says on visit to Budapest ‘we had to show’ support for Viktor Orbán, as opposition leads polls
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JD Vance claims US is not interfering in Hungary election
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NigelBankes @nigelb.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
"Bigotry drives the bus" and (referring to the APP's rationale for separatism) "The 20-page carnival of grievance, conspiracy and misinformation could be named 'What If the Trucker Convoy Were a Country?'" #abpoli #cdnpoli @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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Among the Separatists | The Tyee
I wanted to learn the true target of their angry dreams. What I heard made me tremble for the Alberta I love.
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Mark Gerretsen @markgerretsen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Of course they did. This is the pattern: support something when it’s convenient… abandon it when it becomes politically useful to oppose it. #HighSpeedRail #RailInfrastructure #CanadianInfrastructure #OntarioTransit #FutureOfTransit
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Thank you @faejohnstone.bsky.social for the assist on this one!! ✨ WATCH THE FULL VIDEO HERE: youtu.be/NHZpDjyMBJ0?...
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Don't Say Gay bills are coming to Canada. You can thank the Alberta government.
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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Solar is winning the energy race
The world’s cheapest power source is scaling at warp speed, pushing coal, gas and nuclear aside.
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Castanet.net @castanet.net · 25/03/2026
Alberta town passes bylaw to ban decorative flags, crosswalks from government land (Alberta)
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Alberta town passes bylaw to ban decorative flags, crosswalks from government land - Alberta News
Councillors in an Alberta town have become the latest community in the province to ban decorative flags and crosswalks from public land, a move that effectively forbids symbolic artistic statements, such as rainbow-hued Pride crosswalks.
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
My wife and I were going on a year long motorhome trip across Canada and then down along the Gulf states for retirement, but we will never again cross the border into the Deadlands so now the year will include winter over in T.O. instead, (house sit? Airbnb?) Any favorites out east for us "Westies"?
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🇨🇦Merlin Ca🇨🇦 @merlinofcanada.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
.Here you have Danielle Smith's letter demanding DOUBLE Alberta's allotment of immigrants. This referendum is nothing but a #WagTheDog move to distract from a disastrous budget and #UCP total incompetence. She needs a Scapegoat &Justin is gone so its the Immigrants.
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Valentines day in Nanaimo B.C. Canada. A moment of peace.
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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Mark Carney's Invisible Weapon
How Canada’s Mark Carney Is Shaping the Coming Conflict with America
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I can see that the 1930's blueprint that Trump and the MAGAites have been following has entered a new stage. Was it too late a year ago? Is it too late now? Fade too black, I guess. deadline.com/2026/01/don-...
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Don Lemon Arrested By Federal Agents After Trump Administration Targeted Him Over Coverage Of Minnesota ICE Protest
UPDATED: Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents in Los Angeles on Thursday evening, as the journalist was in town to cover the Grammy Awards, his attorney Abbe Lowell said in a statement. ...
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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Alberta, once a hotspot for renewable energy projects, sees investment 'plummet’ | The Narwhal
Corporate investment fell 99% after Alberta’s pause on new renewable energy development, as the industry faces ongoing policy uncertainty
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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B.C. billionaire Jim Pattison's Virginia warehouse could become ICE facility | CBC News
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is in talks to buy a Virginia warehouse owned by British Columbia billionaire Jim Pattison and plans to turn it into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (IC...
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Gestapo "Trump Regime Lies After ICE Kills Nurse" full video | youtu.be/8MRwgW1u7jU
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Redirecting...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Post from Mac Randolph RIP Alex Pretti, He was my Dad’s ICU nurse. He read my dad’s final salute at the VA after he passed away. Never wanted to share this video, but his speech is very on point.
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Reality trumps a Poilievre oil fantasy www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/23/o...
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Reality trumps a Poilievre oil fantasy
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's stand on a proposed new oil pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast flawed on so many levels. It confuses where most of the refining of our crude oil occurs, wro...
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Emulating the Enemy open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Emulating the Enemy
In Venezuela and Greenland, Trump’s strategy is to beat the bad guys by becoming the bad guys.
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 11/01/2026
Canada is taking #Minnesota. It’s settled. It’s ours now. youtube.com/shorts/1jPn8...
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Canada is taking Minnesota. It’s settled.
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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Edmond Bertrand (@vilniusschoolmaster)
RANDY RAINBOW GOING AFTER THE DIPSHIT ASSHOLE RFK. TOO GOOD TO MISS!!!
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Looks like a good buy, couldn't have been a way to scam people who support her. share.google/X2LyEBgAcwR0...
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Melania Meme price today in Canada - MELANIA Market Cap & Live Crypto Charts
The Melania Meme price in Canada is $0.16. Find MELANIA trends, real-time charts & price history. Chart the path to financial freedom today.
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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Does sum up some of my own thoughts on a few fellow "Canadians". open.substack.com/pub/thewalru...
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Have You Heard the One about Kevin O’Leary, Wayne Gretzky, and Danielle Smith Walking into Mar-a-Lago?
It’s a joke that ends with three Canadians helping Trump meddle with our sovereignty
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Mike @widerawake.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
How could I have missed this? Nice statement piece, too bad it couldn't have stayed up longer. Elbows up Brantford. The Gretzky statues in Brantford got a mysterious MAGA makeover - Toronto Life share.google/Kg75h3GZIG87...
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The Gretzky statues in Brantford got a mysterious MAGA makeover - Toronto Life
An offensive defacement? Depends whom you ask
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 18/12/2025
In the 1930s, the U.S. tried to bully the world. Here’s the story of how Canada resisted… by simply being boring. #cdnpoli #tariffs youtube.com/shorts/-8mOe...
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The Case for Boring
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