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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 17m

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 23m

Parts of #NovaScotia, #NewBrunswick experiencing once-in-50-year drought

‘We haven't really experienced this for many, many years,’ says Acadia University professor

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Parts of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick experiencing once-in-50-year drought | CBC News

Parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are in the midst of exceptional drought — the most extreme category on the national scale.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 5h

🤣 I just noticed that

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 5h

American spirit exports to #Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group

Distilled Spirits Council of the United States CEO urges 'lasting return to tariff-free trade'

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American spirit exports to Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group | CBC News

American spirit exports to Canada "plummeted" 85 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States calling the situation "very troubling" as consumers in ...

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 5h

Blue Jays to face Mariners in ALCS after Seattle eliminates Detroit Tigers

Mariners clinch spot in ALCS after nail-biting 15 innings, will play Blue Jays on Sunday

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Mariners advance to ALCS after beating Lions 3-2 in 15-inning marathon | CBC Sports

The Toronto Blue Jays will face the Mariners in the American League Championship Series after Seattle eliminated the Detroit Lions late Friday night.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 5h

How Canadian steelmakers are 'greening' their steel amid tariffs, global challenges

Ontario steel plants moving toward electric furnaces and hydrogen #Canada

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How Canadian steelmakers are 'greening' their steel | CBC Climate Change News

Steelmaker Algoma says U.S. tariffs on steel are pushing it to more quickly transition to electric steelmaking. Here's why decarbonizing steel is such a big deal, how it's being done in Canada and wha...

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 21h

/3 photo in question - from Toronto, Canada - this happened almost 10 years ago

protest in Toronto, Canada in front of police headquarters showing Canadian protestors fishing with donuts

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 22h

/2 The photo is actually from a protest at Toronto police headquarters and is at least a decade old. While some Portland protesters did taunt ICE agents with a similar stunt, the photo is a misrepresentation.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 22h

A photo shared online in October supposedly showed protesters in Portland, Ore. ‘baiting’ United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with doughnuts suspended from fishing lines--is actually from a #Toronto #Canada protest

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halifax.citynews.ca/2025/10/10/f...

Fact File: Photo of Portland doughnut 'ICE fishing' protest actually taken in Toronto

A photo shared online in October supposedly showed protesters in Portland, Ore. ‘baiting’ United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with doughnuts suspended from fishing lines. The phot...

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 1d

PM Carney on the National School Food Program:

"No child should go to school hungry or sit in a classroom all day wondering where their next meal will come from... Until today, this program was a pilot..so, we're announcing we'll move forward with the funding and legislation to make it permanent."

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 22h

omg what a bunch of idiots

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 22h

Can new tech finally wake #Canada’s sleeping geothermal giant?

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/09/a...

Can new tech finally wake Canada’s sleeping geothermal giant?

Canada’s geothermal resources could meet the nation’s power demand “one million times over”, but not a single commercial well has been drilled. That’s about to change as new technologies bolster the b...

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 1d

JOLY: “And you know we can have a strong military complex here at home and be a progressive country."

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 1d

JOLY: “We had at one point the Avro Arrow project, which I'm very fond of, and that we had to let go."

(forget the f-35, restart the avro arrow)

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 1d

Carney on automatic federal benefits: "This program will pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits in the next few years that would otherwise be left unclaimed, helping our most vulnerable get the supports that they need."

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 22h

#Canada #NationalSchoolFoodProgram🍁

Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 1d

Carney on Canada's National School Food Program: "No child should go to school hungry or sit in a classroom all day wondering where their next meal will come from... Until today, this program was a pilot..so, we're announcing we'll move forward with the funding and legislation to make it permanent."

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 1d

Carney on the Canada Strong Pass: "We created the Pass so that Canadians can see more of our great country for less... Since no one can possibly experience all that Canada has to offer in just a few short months, we're renewing it for the summer of 2026."

(someone get this man a glass of water)

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 1d

CARNEY: "The benefits that we are protecting, the Canada Child Benefit, the Disability Benefit... we're going to make the responsible pragmatic choices as a government led by the minister of finance in this budget to ensure that we have those programs not just today but for tomorrow for the future."

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 22h

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 1d

Carney on three new measures that will be in Budget 2025: "First, we're launching automatic federal benefits to help our most vulnerable get the money that they're entitled to. Secondly, we're making the National School Food Program permanent. And thirdly, we're renewing the Canada Strong Pass."

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 1d

Carney on three new measures that will be in Budget 2025: "First, we're launching automatic federal benefits to help our most vulnerable get the money that they're entitled to. Secondly, we're making the National School Food Program permanent. And thirdly, we're renewing the Canada Strong Pass."

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 22h

Two Canadian law firms launch prospective class action suit against TikTok--alleging the short-form video app targets children and causes psychological harm. #Canada

www.ctvnews.ca/saskatoon/ar...

Two Canadian law firms launch prospective class action suit against TikTok

A prospective class action lawsuit filed in Saskatchewan has put TikTok in the crosshairs, alleging the short-form video app targets children and causes psychological harm.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 22h

Popular #NovaScotia farm expands with larger corn maze, petting zoo for its fall festival #RiverBreezeFarm #UpperOnslow #ColchesterCounty

www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

The corruption and self-dealing is staring you in the face. Hello?

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"Radical Left Thug" @techcafe.bsky.social · 23h

“The situation is that millions of lower income Canadians don’t file their taxes, either because they don’t have the resources to do so, or because they think that their income is too low for it to matter, and that means too often that the people who most need benefits often don’t get them.” 💯👍

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 23h

Some people are dead and several people are unaccounted for after an explosion at a military explosives company in #Tennessee, local officials say.

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Massive blast at military explosives plant in Tennessee leaves multiple people dead, several ‘unaccounted for’

Some people are dead and several people are unaccounted for after an explosion at a military explosives company in Tennessee, local officials say.

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