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M C Wilson 🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 4h

Voters clearly enjoy the media dismissed and diminished, a strategy that has been successful for Trump, Poilievre, and Harper before them. I hope the Parliamentary Press Gallery realizes that they have a public relations/perception crisis and correct it because it is critical for the country. .../2

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Black Panther🍁🦫🇨🇦antifa✌️ @blackpanther25.bsky.social · 2h

Pierre Poi𝙇𝙄𝙀vre is Big Oils useful idiot🤪

#NeverVoteConservative
#CanadaSky🇨🇦

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Pierre Poilievre is Big Oil’s useful idiot

With an inner circle stacked with fossil fuel lobbyists, it’s no wonder that Pierre Poilievre voted against the environment 400 times.

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 2h

Time to add Jeep to the blacklist.
Stellantis says they have plans for the factory and are in talks with the Feds.
Doug Ford needs to step up too and do more than use it as a photo-op.
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/loca...

Stellantis moving Jeep Compass production originally slated for Brampton plant to Illinois

Stellantis has announced plans to move production of its Jeep Compass to Illinois, after previously pausing production at the Brampton, Ont., plant in February as a result of U.S. President Donald Tru...

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 1h

Roundup post: A last-minute trip sans journalists #cdnpoli

www.routineproceedings.com

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L Bennett 🇨🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇦✌🏻#TeamCanada #ElbowsUp @thatgenxwidower.bsky.social · 5h

This is absolutely chilling. It's a long read, but I think it's a vital piece of investigative journalism and well worth anyone's time. This is the future of the GOP. #uspoli

Politico @politico.com · 22h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Trish 🇨🇦 Sorry! 🍁 @trishly.bsky.social · 3h

Furthering annexing of Canada!

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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 16h

Israel army breaks ceasefire opening fire and killing 9 Palestinians.

Trump Tells Hamas to disarm before they get an agreement in the peace plan to have Palestine independence as part of the plan. Trump says he will US will do it violently.

What kind of peace plan is this?

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Trump threatens to disarm Hamas ‘violently’ as Israel violates Gaza truce

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire saying a group of people approached soldiers before being targeted.

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Black Panther🍁🦫🇨🇦antifa✌️ @blackpanther25.bsky.social · 13h

This Right Here👇🎯

Montreal Mike🇨🇦 @mikemontreal.bsky.social · 13h

The ink isn’t even dry and already IDF have killed more Gazans, Israel cut off half the aid, the IDF is planning to blow up anywhere they think has a tunnel, and gangs are fighting for control of Gaza in a power vacuum.

Tell me again how this is…peace?
#cdnpoli

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 3h

Feds boost #Manitoba's provincial nominee program by 30% months after cutting immigrant approvals in half
Ottawa adds almost 1,500 to Manitoba's allotment months after provincial immigration minister raised concerns

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Feds boost number of newcomers allowed to come to Manitoba after earlier cut to immigration program | CBC News

A federal immigration program in Manitoba that faced significant cuts earlier this year subsequently received a boost of over 30 per cent from Ottawa — bringing the total number of slots through the ...

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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 15h

Gaza #ceasefire outlook darkens as #Israel delays #aid

What was Mondays fiasco? A theatrical scene for politicians? to silence the world? Stop protests? Divert attention away from #Israel bombings? what a disappointment‼️ corrupt Israeli military& govt#EyesOnGaza

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Gaza ceasefire outlook darkens as Israel delays aid

Israel has delayed aid into Gaza and kept the enclave's border shut, while re-emergent Hamas fighters were seen executing men in the street, darkening the outlook for US President Donald Trump's plan ...

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 5h

I don't think Putin can afford to admit that the war hasn't been a mistake&stop the war he cannot win.This’ll mean the end of his power.He needs a war that lasts- lasts until the end of his life

Is Putin ready to stop the war?That is the wrong question
The right question is:Can Putin stop the war?⤵️

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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 4h

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 4h

Data from 2023. The good ‘ol days. 🤦‍♂️
Measles and pertussis are already on the rise.
Sadly we won’t see these numbers ever again, except for maybe SP, unless it escapes some lab freezer or closet (remember that one?).

A bar graph showing the numbers of cases of various diseases in the US in 2023.
Vaccines have decreased cases of Measles, Pertussis, Mumps, Rubella, smallpox, Diptheria, and polio by over 97%.

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Steve Saidemonster @smsaideman.bsky.social · 3h

@plagasse.bsky.social has an interesting piece in his substack on how many defence ministers Canada has these days philippelagasse.substack.com/p/a-cabinet-... with Joly and Anand stepping a bit into that domain.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

A precondition for Republics to transition to autocracies is the politicization of the military. It is why the political & military leaders of the country have been so vigilant to keep partisanship away from it. But this admin is dismantling that concept. www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action | CNN Politics

For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used ...

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maryewright @maryewright.bsky.social · 5h

Another Conservative Premier joins the Federation in Newfoundland and Labrador.
This increases the challenges facing the Climate File, as well as protection for our Charter.

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 1d

Gender-based violence affects over half of Canada’s population and costs lives.

Join YWCA presents The Walrus Talks Ending Gender-Based Violence for a national conversation on change.

📅 Ottawa | November 19

🔗 www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-walru...

#EndingGBV #TheWalrusTalks

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Stephen Marche @stephenmarche.bsky.social · 12d

I wrote for the @guardian about the best piece of advice I ever received. It was from my friend Gerry, who's 85, and it's simple: "Never lose a friend." He taught me that friendship, like exercise, is something you have to work at. Men need to learn this. www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

Want more friends? A better social life? Be like my 85-year-old buddy Gerry

Friendship falters due to the belief it should just happen on its own. The solution: make a conscious effort to be social

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times

Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 1d

Autumn in Orillia
Franklin Carmichael
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WIRED @wired.com · 19h

"This was surprising and new information for us. We have not approved the use of the IKEA logo in this context," IKEA spokesperson Arvid Stigland tells WIRED.

Tesla and Amazon did not respond to requests for comment.

A Plan to Rebuild Gaza Lists Nearly 30 Companies. Many Say They're Not Involved

A presentation that has been shared with the Trump administration references Tesla, Ikea, TSMC, and more in its plan to rebuild Gaza. Some of these companies say they had no idea they were mentioned.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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Stephen Lautens @stephenlautens.bsky.social · 14h

Canada clocks in to top 10 at number nine. #cdnpoli

CNN @cnn.com · 20h

Once a ticket to visa-free travel across the world, the US passport’s potency has dwindled in recent times. https://cnn.it/4hfYvKu

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 17h

ICYMI, my Loonie Politics column: The immigration discourse has taken a toxic turn #cdnpoli

The immigration discourse has taken a toxic turn - Loonie Politics

Everyone has allowed this toxic discourse to flourish at a time when the far-right is moving mainstream, and this is a very real problem.

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